Review of "Britt-Marie Was Here"

Dreadful Swedish "comedy drama" about a woman in late middle age (63, please tell me that's late middle age rather than elderly) who finds out that her boring husband is having an affair and leaves him, getting a job as a youth worker in a remote town where she is expected to coach the under-10s football team in a decrepit youth centre. 

It has all the cliches of an "underdog team" is redeemed by engaged coach type film, but someone forgot to write an actual plot. Hard to understand why this was released, it is so bad. Lots of plot elements casually strewn across the narrative as if something wandered across the script taking random shits...the inspiring older sister who dies in a car crash aged 10 and therefore blights the central character's life, the would-be love interest policeman in the remote town, the youth centre is going to be closed down...none of them treated with anything like attention. 

The mainly positive reviews of this film cast doubt on the whole online review system. It's based on a book, part of a series, with the character being recycled from an earlier one in the series. The reviews of this fourth book seem to have been bad, which suggests perhaps that the book reviewing process is not so corrupted.

Watched on BBC iPlayer, and a disgrace to the service.